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I believe that is anti-community in spirit and non-conductive to solving the issue you claim exists. Many developers breath of knowledge extends only to that they have experience with personally. Maybe they joined the project because they want to learn something which you can only do by diving in, making mistakes, and learning as you gain experience. How many developers that could evolve into great developers have been stunted because someone denied them the opportunity to become competent? Once you open something up to contributors, it becomes everyone's responsibility to learn how to work together effectively and productively and changes should be discussed and adopted based on what is best for everyone. I am certain it would be possible to establish mentorship and technical review committees that can both ensure the quality of the end product and encourage growth in the particular specialty area the project addresses.
Only some brokers were locking it out. Most of the traditional big names did not.
"The fastest way to get clicks... write a story about /r/WSB" said every website/media outlet editor.
Those don't seem to matter here, the business apparently is saying that the language was precise and they were experiencing measurable harm from it.
a link for the lazy (twitter thread): https://twitter.com/dollarsanddata/status/135456107992655053...
You both brought up a memory for the first time where as I child I once decided to hold my breathe and started to panic and worry because I didn't seem to be able to start breathing again. I think it was only a one-time thing, and obviously I started breathing again. I wonder how common it is and what the state of a child who experiences this is - it's fascinating.
Neither Tesla nor Amazon went +10,000% in the space of a week.

There's a long term bull case for Gamestop at the $5/share levels of August. There's a bull case for Gamestop at the $17/share levels of early January. I might not believe them personally, but someone can make that case without being insane.

There's no bull case for Gamestop at $468.50 a share this moment as I type. There is no way that Gamestop goes from slightly negative EPS to $23/share earnings (a P/E of 20). And that's what it would take to put money in the bag.

All that is here is a Ponzi scheme.
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Its twitter but this thread is a pretty nice summary https://twitter.com/MrBrownEyes2020/status/13545170672407715...
> It's just that the language is focused on performance a lot and compete with C++. And so they sometimes make tradeoffs in favor of performance instead of expressiveness or simplicity.

Yep, exactly my feeling. When I get back to writing Elixir at my $day_job I am just blown away how I can achieve most of the same results (for 100X less performance of course) in like 20x less coding lines... :( Not a direct comparison with a dynamic language is possible of course, but I too wish the Rust team starts sacrificing something for a bit more expresiveness and code conciseness.

> That is understandable - but 95% of the projects I(!) have worked on don't need this - I can just give it a GB more RAM and a bit more CPU and write software quicker because I don't have to care about certain details.

Both what you describe and hand-crafted and ruthlessly tested C/C++ code that's maximally efficient have their place. But I definitely don't belong the the "machine efficiency at all costs" tribe and I get worried at any potential signal that Rust is headed in that direction. Which it might not be. We'll see.

> The fact that you used Rust probably puts you in the upper 10% - rough gestimation. I'm not telling you which 10% though. :P

<Saruman voice> YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE!

...I mean, I am myself's worst critic. It took me a while to get comfortable with Rust and even if that means I am a below-average programmer, I don't care. I am taking my time and I can objectively measure that I am getting better with time there.

I still do agree that Rust does require time and persistence however. That is irrevocably true. Here's to hoping the team will make it consume a bit less characters (and thus typing) and improve the compiler and the tooling further. I am rooting for them with all my heart.
> Would be interesting if WSB was allowed to invest in private startups as easily as they can invest in meme stocks.

Technically the JOBS act is supposed to allow this (crowdfunding). May not be as easy as buying stock but at least it's legal now.
This is partially caused by the thinking in the article.

The modern selfish senior would rather live 5 more years in a nursing home with a bad quality of life than give their inheritance to their children. The inheritance is instead given to the state and megacorps.

Many of our parents inherited a home.
Not letting people buy forces everyone to either hold or sell, bringing down the prices. Moving to a new broker takes time for approval, transfer.
Not always. Also, a lot of water towers have alternative power sources they can use. More and more, solar panel arrays do this. They work very well despite the lack of constant power output because the water tower itself buffers the need for service.
The author seems to have bought in a bit too much into the narrative in the WSB forum. This post reads more like a regurgitation of the grandiose pronouncements you see there rather than an insightful analysis of the situation.
Populism seems to so often miss the point / target and seems as manipulative as anything else this rant of an article is talking about.
I don't get the New York subway reference. Could you give more details/link to an article?
I agree, it's a hack. This hack competes with the "auto-close all pull requests" hack.

Which hack you would choose depends on how important it is never to see pull requests (e.g. for IP reasons as described elsethread).
I don't know anything besides what I just read in the article.

Sure, if you are going 5x speed limit and then crash, I wouldn't blame anyone but the driver for that, I could also understand that it could be reasonable to expect a fire in that situation.

But this article is about the doors, if you are unable to open the door without a working battery, that is indeed a problem...
I think you might have it mixed with another lawsuit where a Tesla was doing 116mph in a 25mph zone? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6571051/Parents-tee...

Two teenagers in that one.
Honestly as a non-American I look on at comments like this with amusement.
If you believe the global antifa is an armed wing of the democrats then your an absolute tool.
How is disabling purchases and broker-wide outages not bolstering hedge funds?

It's government intervention no matter how you look at it. Just because it's not a direct capital infusion does not make it any less bad
> Do you honestly believe this? Somehow we'll go from not being able to buy certain stocks to violence?

It isn't simply that people can't buy certain stocks. Its an accumulation of events that increasingly lead people to believe that the system is rigged against them. This extends back decades. You have to have been living under a rock to have missed the rising tide of populist sentiment over the last decade, as seen in the pro-Trump anti-establishment contingent on the right, and the explosion of pro-socialist sentiment on the far left.

This Gamestop business probably amounts to a large bucketful of water, but at a certain point, a single drop causes the dam to burst. Kicking the can down the road by saying "surely people won't resort to violence over this" all but ensures that eventually, people will.
> If the short sellers think the stock is overpriced, and there's others that think its underpriced, then both sides are placing their bets and will deal with the result, either by making or losing a lot of money.

I don't think it's really a case of people disagreeing on the real value of GameStop stock. Framing it like this ignores important facts.

This stock was trading around $4 in August, around $20 in the beginning of January, and is almost at $400 right now. People can have legitimate disagreements about what the true value is: $5 per share? $10? $20? $40?

But no way anyone sincerely believes GameStop is worth $400/share. People who are buying right now at (or near) that price point are either doing so because they believe the short squeeze will drive the price up even further (Redditors), or because they have to deliver stock they sold short (investment funds). So all parties agree that the stock is overpriced, and people have been buying knowing this fully well.
> high frequency traders are probably making a bundle.

I've heard from a former colleague at a major HFT firm, that they hit their entire revenue target for the year, just in the past week.
Why do Americans drive 200km per day? You'll churn through a car every 6 years at that rate.
Yes, if WSB gets their way it will be the short sellers forced to buy a bunch of overpriced stock holding it after the crash. I would openly celebrate their loss.

If all the shit to stem the tide works: shutting down discord and personal trading platforms, halting trading, yada yada works then WSB will be holding the bag. I wouldn’t really mourn their loss either because it’s a meme stock bought by people who can afford to can afford to lose.
American exceptionalism is fascinating in that it includes the belief that the American government is uniquely incompetent among developed countries.
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I'm also quite ignorant of investing and also contract law, but technically, Robinhood's recent disabling of buying new options or shares [1] falls under their terms of service [2]:

You agree that, without notice, _Robinhood may terminate these Terms and Conditions, or suspend your access to the Service or the Content, with or without cause at any time and effective immediately._ [...] Robinhood shall not be liable to you or any third party for the termination or suspension of the Service or the Content, or any claims related to such termination or suspension.

tl;dr: we can change what you can do on Robinhood at any time for any (or no) reason at all, and you can't do anything about it.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6w4uo/robi...

[2] https://d2ue93q3u507c2.cloudfront.net/assets/robinhood/legal...
Some AVs have an issue with PyInstaller: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/4269

I've also seen some AVs having an issue with QT dlls, probably because some malware used them at some point.
Take from the rich and... oh wait you're not allowed to do that.
> With their heads in cloud nine, hedge funds tried to kill GameStop ($GME). They tried to squeeze it so much that it would suffocate and die. They didn't care about the people who will be out of jobs, unable to pay their bills, or even survive. Blinded by greed, all they care about was money.

this is a bit much. shorting != trying to kill a business. it can certainly depress the stock price, but so can closing a long position.
1. You migh thave N projects where a few want contributions and a few don't. You don't want several sites to manage them.

2. The code part of github (a git tree on a webpage) isn't even the key functionality. It's PR's, CI. You may accept feature requests and bug requests but still not want PR's.

3. Having collaborative development with a small team of e.g. 2 people means internal pull requests, reviews, discussions etc are important (and could still be useful to see or contribute to by external users), so taking away PR's isn't the same as going under ground with the project.

4. GitHub is a well known site, people will find your project there.
They are blocking buying, and only allowing selling GME, BB and others.

How is this not evidence of a corrupted free market system? A CEO of one company can call up his connections in retail trading platform firms, CNBC, and Nasdaq and protect his profits? Why is Reddit the scandal and not that?

Reddit is full of rocket emojis and YOLO jokes. But what we see here, especially with the moralizing about gambling, is an elitism on full display.

The people are sick of it.
You can lose a maximum of 4 karma per comment, relax. It's fine to be downvoted here and there.
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Thanks for the explanation.

It would certainly more work for you to maintain CLA for your project, but why does sqlite setup CLA? It is sufficiently big project and they could easily setup CLA if they wanted to.
Yes. The way the short squeeze has been working so far is the hedge funds do a ladder short to drive the price down, and retail buys up shares, sending price back up. Without retail to buy shares, price can keep falling until people get freaked out and sell their shares, which is what the hedge funds want.
The reason nothing changed with OWS is because they couldn't voice a clear message. Everyone knows they're being defrauded but the fraud is complex and difficult to communicate so instead you have this disorganized protest that amounts to very little change.
No question, just want to say that I fully understand and support your choice. I run a tiny open source project and literally the first PR was just a terrible experience. A one liner that fixed a bug but introduced new issues. So we wrote our own fix and then got insulted to not use the original PR. Yes, being able to switch of external PRs would be a bliss.
Blue Dream is a wonderful strain. I am (was) a sucker for Haze cultivars. There tends to be Haze in a lot of CBD strains.

I live in Canada and we have legalization rocking already, a friend of mine works at a licensed producer, their sole focus is terpenes, the India vs Sativa and THC % is more marketing vs truth at this point. Wonder if the terps would unlock more reality into your points.
Too many whales in dogecoin that want to keep a lid on it. It's meant to be used for charity and community building. Sometimes you can play the run and use derivatives to short it on the way down. Easier plays than this though.
I too hold money at a stock brokerage just in case a revolution starts.
Who says I'm an American, and who says I was talking about global Antifa?
No tools or frameworks.

Minimum viable (no particular order):

1. Know Clojure (duh...) You should know language and most features of most standard functions.

2. Know Java VERY well. You will be debugging system with JVM underneath and Java libraries but programming Clojure. If you don't know Java you are not going to learn it while programming Clojure but you will be needing it nevertheless.

3. Have mature understanding of various approaches, patterns, paradigms, development practices and most importantly, importance of simplicity and how to write maintainable code. Clojure allows you to do basically anything and will not handhold you on how to structure your application. Therefore, if you don't already have that knowledge and maturity with you, more likely than not you are going create an unmaintainable monstrosity.
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Interesting point. I'm not super familiar with the open-source BSD world (my last serious involvement with BSD was 4.3 Tahoe in 1991-2) but it seems like at least in that case the outcome has been pretty positive.
What if you could build this product but to also allow for the direct power supply connection ?
So they're going to show Wall Street who's boss by gambling away their grocery money? (Some will make out but I suspect the vast majority will lose big--money at least some can't really afford to lose.) I have trouble conjuring up a lot of sympathy but that's almost certainly uncharitable as I'm sure there will be stories of serious individual loss.
This is just shifting who's getting the unreasonable, unnecessary transfer of wealth weighted towards the earlier adopters.
Locking out a specific set of actions for a specific set of investors based on the data you collect on them while allowing one actions (sell) that inevitably drives asset price downward since that's literally the only action people can take.
That's a very interesting question, perhaps that's their hack. If it never manifests win win.
Certain brokerages are not allowing buy orders for certain stocks, but are allowing sell orders for the same stock, or other unrelated stock.

Certain brokerages also have commercial relationships with the people who are in the short position.

Feels like a conflict/abuse of your power.
Perhaps but Americans won't result to violence en mass. Despite what you may have seen, Americans are rather docile. A small minority of folks who just so happened to be of military age during the country's longest war but never signed up to fight are the same people who buy the most guns and saber rattle about civil war, etc...
Ok you're here calling people dogs and saying that they are apparently now some kind of new human who is incapable of thinking?

And this is the reasonable balanced totally trying your best in society stance we're supposed to respect?
This is why I will buy a commercial display instead of a TV. They are the same thing but without all the smart stuff. I can also avoid paying TV License (I live in the UK)
This would be great if it were electric.
I feel like that's not the case universally. We have offices over there and they provide prod support too.
They're right that wealthy people game the financial system.

They're insane (or self-interested) to pretend the same doesn't happen in cryptocurrencies.
Populist anger found a new weapon: money. Plus good old social media manipulation.
Reading stories from open-source maintainers, I have 0 difficulty believing many would not.
Indeed. This kind of "fuck you i got mine" attitude is how countries are lost in extreme corruption or "third world" - third world countries are that because the people are impoverished, and the elite have everything.

We're pretty much there. Just try driving through the Midwest, or West in areas not subsumed by the mega-cities. It's sad.
Those make a lot of sense. Thank you!
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If you buy stock with the purpose of pushing the price up so that other people will buy it, that’s market manipulation.

What WSB crowd is doing is market manipulation. That's illegal. WSB is doing everything openly and even celebrating it. Getting mad when openly breaking the law is not rational response. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/78i

Brokers like Robinhood are reacting because they want too keep SEC out of their asses and prevent SEC doing something even worse to their customers.

Stock Markets like nasdaq are reacting to volatility, like they usually do in abnormal situation.
Pretty sure this was a satirical post you guys, of course the youth are more important than the old. They're the only ones who can reproduce and ensure we have a strong civilization for thousands of years to come.
I tried to explain deep learning in the easiest terms
You should still follow these tactics, and make the changes quietly, since the mobs are seeking incommensurate punishment.
>> disappointed that Protonmail provides no evidence that this is really the underlying purpose of the proposal

Be a little generous. This is a blog post, and this is the middle of a debate that's been happening for years. That backdoors are actually what this resolves to is not a controversial position, except that advocates are trying to avoid these terms. In any case, it has been discussed heavily. Not every blog post needs to go through the motions.

Meanwhile, for evidence you can read the resolution yourself and make up your mind... It is linked in the first paragraph. It's short, but here's a paraphrase:

[1] We love encryption, human rights and all that kind of stuff.

[2] Lots of people use encryption. For really important stuff, we even make them use encryption.

[3] BUT(!) Criminals also use encryption. This makes it hard for police to read their DMs even though they're just trying doing their job...

[4] We want to keep encryption, but make it so police can read criminal's DMs.

[5] Big Tech needs to do this.

[6] Regulation something something

[7] More words, no discernible meaning.

Point 4 is the disingenuous point the post is referring to. You are disappointed in a blog post that doesn't cover everything. How about being disappointed in the Council of The European Union's formal resolution demanding something that they know to be impossible. It's not even just technically impossible. It is logically impossible.

This is not the first version, as the blog post mentions. Earlier version were unpopular because banning encryption seems like a bad idea. Even politicians seems to have noticed that. This version is demanding a ban on encryption, but also demanding that whatever weaker alternative is implemented still be called encryption so people aren't worried.

Honestly, this is hideous. Whatever the merit of their arguments, this is not the way. Everything here is subtext. Nothing is stated plainly. About 40% of the text is "reassuring you that this isn't exactly what it sounds like." Quite literally Orwellian.

Like the top comment says. Let's start with them. All members who have signed this resolution can beta test whatever "encryption that only police can break" means. We can all look forward to reading their emails.
It's a small club and you ain't in it is what this all comes down to. USA a banana republic more and more sadly.
> yes, a deliberate attempt to trigger a short squeeze is securities fraud

Can you provide a source for that statement?

> Yes, it's probably going to be the "little guys" holding the bag at the end of this.

I agree 100%.
Uh Perl 5 is in ACTIVE development and has gotten new features. Everything you said about Perl 5 is wrong. Perl 7 (skipping Perl 6 obviously) is on the table and being talked about and Perl 5.34.0 is going to be released in a couple months setting the stage for Perl 7.
> and replace them with billionaires who own huge mining farms.

Aren't most crypto coins set up so that mining is only getting harder with time? The ones ending up rich are the old money, the guys that invested into it in its early days.
That has to be the best feature of vivaldi. Default browser for two years.
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I just bought NOK this morning on TD. I think it's just robinhood.
Institutional investors were betting that GameStop (GME)'s stock price would fall, redditors were betting that it would rise. So far the redditors are winning.

Early on, the bets had some basis in reality, but now it's become more of a speculation game.

Yesterday, two of the big institutional investors decided to fold, effectively loosing 100% of their investments. Edit: or, potentially more.

The same thing has started happening to a few other stocks.

I linked to the Bloomberg Money Stuff column a couple of other places, but I'll post the links here too for a more thorough (and humorous) overview:

Monday: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-01-25/money-...

Tuesday: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-26/will-w...

Yesterday: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-27/reddit...